Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of the administrative systems developed on behalf of the modular course have been designed and tested in-house , beginning with a simple program for pre-enrolment information and student progress on a microcomputer in 1972 and leading up to the large and sophisticated management system described in Chapter 7 . |
| 2 | He may be a grandfather who has survived heart surgery and likes nothing better than spending time with his family but , like a retired gunslinger who can only be pushed so far , he gives the impression of still being capable of strapping on a Colt 45 and facing up to a gaggle of tobacco-stained desperadoes . |
| 3 | He appealed for members to comment by ringing Brenda on Middlesbrough 244860 or calling in at the club . |
| 4 | ‘ Ka-prap ! ’ went Kaptan , imitating the snarl of the M-16 and spinning sideways to the carpet . |
| 5 | She remembered the tea-time throng before the war , when she was ten and working illegally in the Biscuit Factory near Bridgeton . |
| 6 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 7 | Canada dominated the scoring , leading 22–6 at the interval and by 19 points in as many minutes with outside-half Gareth Rees , back after a winter in France , scoring the first nine and going on to a 20-point afternoon . |
| 8 | I think that the idea of erm you know , rushing in to a disaster , taking the aeroplane out , and , and seeing this enormous distress around one and sitting there with a notebook and a pencil is , is unacceptable and indeed we do n't do that at all . |
| 9 | Anti-matter has been known to exist since the Twenties but making enough for a propulsion unit ( one milligram ) would cost $100bn . |
| 10 | Trains will have a power car at both ends , each capable of starting the train on a maximum gradient of 1 in 40 and accelerating rapidly to a maximum operating speed of 300kph . |
| 11 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , rapid economic development , which led to real income per head tripling during the 1960s and quintupling again during the 1970s , strengthened private economic interests . |
| 13 | In broad terms these show Britain riding high in the international league table in the 1950s and 1960s but falling heavily over the 1970s [ Freeman , 1979 ] . |